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    Silent and long-term winners of GST rationalisation: 17 stocks from different sectors which fit the bill

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    In the last few days, a simple trade has been taking place on the street. The government cuts the GST rate on a product, price falls, and households should buy more of it. So, stocks from FMCG and some other sectors have done well. But India’s experience over the last two decades tells a subtler story: Because a family saves on tax in one corner of its consumption basket, it doesn’t mean it will spend more in that same corner. Just to put this in perspective: If one is saving money on buying a soap, that saving will not go into buying additional soap. It might go into buying anything else. What is that something else? It may even be a product that has not seen any GST cut. The fact is that there are many stocks that are silent and long-term winners of the GST rate rationalisation.

    Everyone, right from consumers to India Inc., is waiting for September 22 and the start of the new GST regime. Now, history tells us that every change in taxation structure, either direct or indirect, has multiple impacts. Some very obvious, and some not so obvious. So, when FMCG and auto stock move higher, it is a case of a simple and direct impact. But there is a set of companies which are big winners of this GST rationalization, but because
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